Editor is wrong on gasoline prices

6:51 AM,
Mar. 7, 2013

Written by

R. Neil Walter
Southern Utah Voices

I read with interest the column written by Spectrum Editor Todd Seifert. I am only 36, but I remember buying gasoline as recently as 1995 for less than 90 cents per gallon outside Atlanta and feeling the benefit of those few extra dollars in my pocket. I agree with the premise that rising gasoline prices impact consumers in a very real and uncomfortable way. I also agree with the assertion that rising gasoline prices negatively impact our economy. But, Mr. Seifert gets the cause of gasoline's relatively high price wrong.

He reasons that profit margins are higher for refineries today than in ...